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in this environment, subsidizing wind and solar makes no sense. also five years ago, we thought that china and india, and other emerging economies, my sign-on to emissions reductions, and, therefore, that if we reduced emissions, perhaps global temperatures would be reduced. and i don't think it does but i don't tak take a position on whr mandated emissions caused global warming or not, but if we are reducing our emissions and china and india, which make up 37% of the worlds population, are not doing so, when i pointed any affect on the global temperatures. and then the first chapter of the book i talk about geoengineering solutions, that nobel prize-winning weiner thinks we can reduce global temperature if we just do it on our own. painting russ whitehurst like the sun's rays. what we are doing with a 12 and dollars were spent on alternative energy is pushing people into cars that they don't want to buy, we are raising electricity costs. we are -- we're getting rid of incandescent lightbulbs in favor of fluorescent lightbulbs. and the cost of thi
in this environment, subsidizing wind and solar makes no sense. also five years ago, we thought that china and india, and other emerging economies, my sign-on to emissions reductions, and, therefore, that if we reduced emissions, perhaps global temperatures would be reduced. and i don't think it does but i don't tak take a position on whr mandated emissions caused global warming or not, but if we are reducing our emissions and china and india, which make up 37% of the worlds population, are not...
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her doctors want to see how her body reacts to the studio environment. >> michael finney is here now answering questions sent to us and we start with one e mail reading my mother-in-law left a will in 1987. the law firm that helped create sit no longer l and the lawyer died. what can we do about the will? >> this is a tough one. because of how much time has gone past. i don't know when your mother-in-law guide in the state of california you have 120 days to contest a will. so... if she's not within 120 days you've got something going for you f not, you're in a difficult situation. so i want you to get to probate attorney if there is enough money involved. few bucks, you'd run through it anyway. if there is a lot see if there is something maybe they can fill in the gap. >> ella asks is there anyway to trace scam e mails? >> trying to trace them is all but impossible. the federal government can go about it. and really good hackers to find it out. best thing you can do if you want to join in, most will have a%y+lç button you press telling them it's junk mail. doesn't just move it into
her doctors want to see how her body reacts to the studio environment. >> michael finney is here now answering questions sent to us and we start with one e mail reading my mother-in-law left a will in 1987. the law firm that helped create sit no longer l and the lawyer died. what can we do about the will? >> this is a tough one. because of how much time has gone past. i don't know when your mother-in-law guide in the state of california you have 120 days to contest a will. so... if...
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fiori remains hopeful that even in this tight-money environment, financing will ultimately come his way in the new year. "i am looking forward to 2013, and i hope that all the money that has been sent to all the big banks trickles down to the people that want to buy a home for their family, somehow." mcauliffe adds that while mortgage rates have remained below 4% for some time, he sees them climbing higher throughout 2013. still to come: so crazy it just might work. we'll get some off-the-beaten- path ideas on the 2013 stock market later in traders unplugged. but first, why 2013 might be a good time to go abroad with your money. bill moller joins us for a preview of hot stocks, next. here's a question: how's your equity portfolio looking these days? a little anxious about making a move? well, we recently spoke to john blank, chief equity strategist at zacks investment research. he gave us a pretty good look ahead at 2013 and where the opportunities may lie. bulls or bears, who will be doing most of the running in 2013? > > in my camp, i am a bull, and i think we can get a 10% return out
fiori remains hopeful that even in this tight-money environment, financing will ultimately come his way in the new year. "i am looking forward to 2013, and i hope that all the money that has been sent to all the big banks trickles down to the people that want to buy a home for their family, somehow." mcauliffe adds that while mortgage rates have remained below 4% for some time, he sees them climbing higher throughout 2013. still to come: so crazy it just might work. we'll get some...
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the group struck a down beat note warning that the global environment would remain challenging. let's take a look at shares. they are trading up nearly 4% in trade in london, up better than 7% in the last seven days. what's interesting, too, this is a company that last year just in talking about chinese sales saw shares get walked. >> after a really big run. there was a lot built into expectation owes that. >> this time, investors seemed happy about beating the last time. >> meantime, the 2% drop for same-store sales for h&m showed total sales up 8% last month, outperforming stims estimates. >>> coming up, we'll take a closer look at burberry with. >> inny carlisle, joining out at so is 10:45 a.m. central european time. set your alarm clock. >> something even more important is going on. for all of those who like a strong pint of bitter, the british beermaker has announced that it is reducing the alcohol content in its ale because of rising costs and lower demand. apparently watered down beer allows the parent company, heineken, to pay a lower rate of duty. so they're going to re
the group struck a down beat note warning that the global environment would remain challenging. let's take a look at shares. they are trading up nearly 4% in trade in london, up better than 7% in the last seven days. what's interesting, too, this is a company that last year just in talking about chinese sales saw shares get walked. >> after a really big run. there was a lot built into expectation owes that. >> this time, investors seemed happy about beating the last time. >>...
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itself, when you've got growth and you've got employment opportunity, you've got income growth and environment of very low interest rate is headache to policymaker in which i think the government here continue to have to fine tunemakers every now and then essentially because after they tighten one time, they quiet down the market, but i comes back again because the liquidity flows remain strong. so whether this is the measures toned all measures remains to be seen, i think if the interest rate remains low, we may see further tightening after a period of quiet. i suppose contemplation, i think. >> stick right there. we also want to take a look at what is happening over in india. we're seeing mixed pictures on inflation. headline inflation slowed to its lowest level in three years, in fact. that was up about 7.2% from a year earlier and well shy of expectations. some say the lower than expected wpi fueled the rate cut from india. does this mean 25 basis point rate cuts and more to come? >> well, there's firm pressure from the politicians on the central bankers to do so. the growth is still rathe
itself, when you've got growth and you've got employment opportunity, you've got income growth and environment of very low interest rate is headache to policymaker in which i think the government here continue to have to fine tunemakers every now and then essentially because after they tighten one time, they quiet down the market, but i comes back again because the liquidity flows remain strong. so whether this is the measures toned all measures remains to be seen, i think if the interest rate...
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but i think what staff needs to do now in preparing an addendum to the report at the department of environment dig into what happening right now under local power preparing for the local installation of clean power sf, the build out, because that is developing rapidly, and it's showing some interesting things as in the case of virtual metering this plan would go a step further and create shares and anyone that is a member of clean power sf even if they live in an apartment can buy shares to the program and receive economic benefit and part ownership of it no matter where the solar panels are and another thing to point out is the latest iteration for the build out includes using express hetch hetchy power as you noted in your report. >> >> and currently sold outside of san francisco to bring the rates down with clean power sf so they can be brought into parity with what pg&e is charging right now, and then a further iteration just recently came out in our last meeting on the build out work is that local power has recommended not only doing that, but also to -- has configured a way to keep those
but i think what staff needs to do now in preparing an addendum to the report at the department of environment dig into what happening right now under local power preparing for the local installation of clean power sf, the build out, because that is developing rapidly, and it's showing some interesting things as in the case of virtual metering this plan would go a step further and create shares and anyone that is a member of clean power sf even if they live in an apartment can buy shares to the...
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it also has the added effect of being good for the environment. jeff: this not only has the electric propulsion system, but it has a generator onboard. >> you get to a certain point, the generator will kick in and recharge the battery. you can go for hundreds of miles. jeff: you see all of these folks interested. the concept is electric cadillac. it is pretty exciting to a lot of people. >> there is nobody in the luxury space that can do this right now. we will only make so many for so long. it will be on market in january. jeff: nice. bob ferguson. spent a lot of time in washington. you did a pretty good job. everyone seems to be happy. >> it was tough going for a while, but things are good now. jeff: congratulations on the car. always good to be excited about a new product. this has gm headed in the right direction. next our, pw. dagen: you'll be at the detroit auto show. thank you so much. lance armstrong opening up about doping to oprah. we have reports that the justice department is likely to join a whistleblower lawsuit filed by former teamm
it also has the added effect of being good for the environment. jeff: this not only has the electric propulsion system, but it has a generator onboard. >> you get to a certain point, the generator will kick in and recharge the battery. you can go for hundreds of miles. jeff: you see all of these folks interested. the concept is electric cadillac. it is pretty exciting to a lot of people. >> there is nobody in the luxury space that can do this right now. we will only make so many for...
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people see a generally positive environment for those stocks. i think lmomentum continues there. >> you are seeing flows into materials and technology, but a flo flow out of staples and health care, correct? >> it's clear as day. for etf investors, all risk on and out of risk off. we've seen a billion dollars flow out of telecom, utilities and a couple billion dollars flow into the risk on sectors like materials, industrials and tech. that's where investors are placing their bets for this earnings season. at least etf investors and so far it's paid off. >> matt, it's tim. how about the etfs that correspond to treasury movements last year, this was a trade that everybody got on, because everybody assumed rates had to go higher eventually. where are people lining up in this? this ite >> we should look very closely as what investors are doing in the bond space. i think they are taking a hands off approach. they are certainly shortening their duration and they are actually outsourcing their active management into funds like bond. we are seeing those
people see a generally positive environment for those stocks. i think lmomentum continues there. >> you are seeing flows into materials and technology, but a flo flow out of staples and health care, correct? >> it's clear as day. for etf investors, all risk on and out of risk off. we've seen a billion dollars flow out of telecom, utilities and a couple billion dollars flow into the risk on sectors like materials, industrials and tech. that's where investors are placing their bets...
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the other piece is a political environment where we have the ability to fix the situation. we know what the fix is. you need a comprehensive debt deal that's big enough to stabilize the debt, and we all remember the period when you were trying to balance the budget. we're not there. we're not going to be there any time soon, but you want to make sure that the debt is not growing faster than the economy, that it's on a downward path, and we know the problem is so big that to accomplish that, you have to look at every part of the budget. you have to look at defense spending. you have to clearly focus on looking at health care costs. that's a growing facet in the economy. we have to fix the social security system, making promises bigger than what we can pay out down the road. we have to raise revenues. we started down that path, but what we have not done is looking how to do it while overhauling the tax system which when you want to raise revenues, you can do it in a good or bad way and increase competitiveness or modernizes our tax system. we know what the answers are. we'll
the other piece is a political environment where we have the ability to fix the situation. we know what the fix is. you need a comprehensive debt deal that's big enough to stabilize the debt, and we all remember the period when you were trying to balance the budget. we're not there. we're not going to be there any time soon, but you want to make sure that the debt is not growing faster than the economy, that it's on a downward path, and we know the problem is so big that to accomplish that, you...
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in this environment everybody is watching everybody else if you want to think of it that way. that there's no single authoritative source so we lose that sense of, we're install agreement. also means there's real opportunities for voices that in the past were not heard, for topics in the past would not have made it on the national agenda to actually make it on to the agenda and to become important because someone other than that handful of professional journalists told us it was important. >> host: do you feel we're better informed today than we war 20, 30, 40 -- >> guest: that's a really interesting question. i would say we're still in a transitional period and the potential for being more informed is greater now than it used to be, but in all honesty there's no evidence that we are better informed. i also do work in the area of what people know about politics, and the current evidence suggests that at best we're about as informed as we were in the broadcast era, and at worst we may be in a situation -- this is one of the downsides of the new information environment where peo
in this environment everybody is watching everybody else if you want to think of it that way. that there's no single authoritative source so we lose that sense of, we're install agreement. also means there's real opportunities for voices that in the past were not heard, for topics in the past would not have made it on the national agenda to actually make it on to the agenda and to become important because someone other than that handful of professional journalists told us it was important....
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the uncertain environment that was prevalent here, it is adding to some of those concerns. what their tax rates are going to be. what areas the government will get back on spending, the default position is for people to wait. they tried to commit with investment project. >> [inaudible] we have seen a stabilization. as it hit the bottom? deal have thoughts on that? >> we talked about that and everything that surprised everybody, we have not seen a lot of people re-enter the labour force and wait for participation rates to trend down. there is stabilization we are starting to see, we might see a little more reentry in the labour force and job creation. but there are varying opinions on that. maybe they have taken earlier. the unemployment rate could be pushed higher. >> [inaudible] >> next on c-span, a former law eliminating poverty. the former senator's home discuss the federal budget and the debt. economic forecasts from the american bankers association. eric holder will be speaking at the u.s. conference of mayors tomorrow about gun violence. this will be cahow a new agend
the uncertain environment that was prevalent here, it is adding to some of those concerns. what their tax rates are going to be. what areas the government will get back on spending, the default position is for people to wait. they tried to commit with investment project. >> [inaudible] we have seen a stabilization. as it hit the bottom? deal have thoughts on that? >> we talked about that and everything that surprised everybody, we have not seen a lot of people re-enter the labour...
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i think that the financial story and economic story is saying this is not the kind of financial environment that leads to rapid growth. >> interesting. >> okay. >> you tied it in to dell and jpmorgan and everything else. excellent. larry, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" begins right now. >>> good wednesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm melissa lee with carl quintanilla, and jim cramer and david faber at the new york stock exchange. stocks had a pretty nice day yesterday. the s&p closed at five-year highs. we are looking to the down decide this morning. the dow looking to lose about 62 at the open. the picture in europe, a couple of downgrades for gdp forecasts from both the german government and world bank. italy is down by 1.5%. road map this morning starts off with the banks and earnings. jpmorgan higher. goldman sachs at 18-month highs. >> japan airlines grounding their entire dreamliner fleet. >>> dell shares falling this morning after david faber reports that a deal could be announced within two weeks, but at a price of 13.50 or
i think that the financial story and economic story is saying this is not the kind of financial environment that leads to rapid growth. >> interesting. >> okay. >> you tied it in to dell and jpmorgan and everything else. excellent. larry, thank you. >> my pleasure. >> join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" begins right now. >>> good wednesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm melissa lee with carl quintanilla, and jim...
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against that backdrop, you have a pretty risky environment in the sense that pcs are going through a lot of change right now. so while the valuation of dell stock is pretty darn attractive and i understand the rationale in this low interest rate environment to want to do a deal, because the deal is so large and there's uncertainty around dell's pc core business, i think when push comes to shove, the deal does not get done. >> i want to underscore one of the top rated analysts doesn't think that it's going to happen. shares are moving a little bit higher. stocks almost 23% at this point. obviously had that huge move yesterday. where does that leave the company's future, toni? what are they going to do? >> look, i think the company has been very deliberate in laying out a strategy, which is, we're going to try and move away from pcs. we're going to take our cash and buy companies to try and make us more of an enterprise player. one of the benefits of not going private is you have more degrees of freedom. you don't have to use your cash flow to pay down debt. you can use your cash flow
against that backdrop, you have a pretty risky environment in the sense that pcs are going through a lot of change right now. so while the valuation of dell stock is pretty darn attractive and i understand the rationale in this low interest rate environment to want to do a deal, because the deal is so large and there's uncertainty around dell's pc core business, i think when push comes to shove, the deal does not get done. >> i want to underscore one of the top rated analysts doesn't...
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because the interest rate environment is very tough for them. you want to be cautious going into earnings. sandra: i told everybody you would be naming names. stock your portfolios with what you suggest here. you're calling for three of the 11 regional names to beat expectations. which three? >> well that would be mtb u.s. bank and fifth third and we think they are all in a position because of their mix of earnings, a lot of fee income because of merger in the case of mtb. those are ones where you could see them buck this trend of overall pressure on earnings. we think those are the places to be and they're high quality names. sandra: i want to tell everybody, m & t reporting this week on wednesday, fifth third is reporting on thursday. those are where you're calling for beats. six of them you are predicting of regional banks will miss expectations which six? >> we have a number of them. in fact it will be more than six. it will be across the board. we look at a keycorp and pnc, some of the other names where the net interest margin pressure beca
because the interest rate environment is very tough for them. you want to be cautious going into earnings. sandra: i told everybody you would be naming names. stock your portfolios with what you suggest here. you're calling for three of the 11 regional names to beat expectations. which three? >> well that would be mtb u.s. bank and fifth third and we think they are all in a position because of their mix of earnings, a lot of fee income because of merger in the case of mtb. those are ones...
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researchers artificially changed the environment to monitor the impact on the crustaceans. they're trying to find out if the thinning of the ice could affect krill numbers. bigger animals at the south pole provide even more data. scientists in the university of tasmania have attached small devices on elephant seals to record their movements and the temperature of the sea where they swim. they're aiming to determine how changes in the ice volume and water temperature affect behavior. >> the elephant seal numbers have been declining over the last 20 or 30 years, and it's almost certainly due to some change in the marine environment. we can make predictions about how the animals are going to respond as the climate changes into the future. >> reporter: australian officials and experts say their effort isn't just academic but realistic and practical too. >> certainly climate change is a really big concern to us. concerned about antarctica because of the impact it has and the practical consequences. it affects the ocean around it and therefore the fisheries upon which we rely. >>
researchers artificially changed the environment to monitor the impact on the crustaceans. they're trying to find out if the thinning of the ice could affect krill numbers. bigger animals at the south pole provide even more data. scientists in the university of tasmania have attached small devices on elephant seals to record their movements and the temperature of the sea where they swim. they're aiming to determine how changes in the ice volume and water temperature affect behavior. >>...
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welcome to the 13th annual conference on science, policy, and the environment, disasters in the environment. i'm the executive director of a national council of the science of the environment, and it is my distinct master of ceremonies for much of the conference. thank you for coming. lots of people are still outside, encourage them to come in and settle themselves down. super storm sandy, drought on agriculture, wildfires, the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor accident in japan last year, haiti earthquake, the list is long and worrying. in 20 # 11, we had more disasters in the united states costing more than a billion dollars than ever. in fact, we had more expensive disasters, but not quite as many in 2012. the drought and the super storm were hugely, hugely expensive. disasters are happening with greater frequency, greater severity, and absolutely with many, many greater costs. we ray -- we are here over the next three days to work across traditional boundaries to connect scientists of all stripes with practitioners, with policymakers from the international to the local level with
welcome to the 13th annual conference on science, policy, and the environment, disasters in the environment. i'm the executive director of a national council of the science of the environment, and it is my distinct master of ceremonies for much of the conference. thank you for coming. lots of people are still outside, encourage them to come in and settle themselves down. super storm sandy, drought on agriculture, wildfires, the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor accident in japan last...
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i mean for the past several years, we've been wringing our hands about creating a stable environment in afghanistan, and the theory then well you do that, and we have solved the -- solved the al qaeda problem. we've been saying that for years that isn't the case. the facility that was hit, you know, these companies, this is where they operate, they operate in high risk, high threat areas, and they have a very high risk appetite. they understand the dangers that are involved. but the problem is the confluence of events. the things that have been happening including libya as you mentioned have allowed for a strengthening of the primary extremist groups. stuart: you could say this is the down side of the arab spring to some degree. it is a big down side. by the way we're just learning that three american hostages died in the takeover there. that's just been revealed just moments ago, literally. last one to you, mike, do you -- do you think it's possible to protect facilities like the one that was just attacked in algeria? they're remote. they're huge, and they are remote. >> well, you c
i mean for the past several years, we've been wringing our hands about creating a stable environment in afghanistan, and the theory then well you do that, and we have solved the -- solved the al qaeda problem. we've been saying that for years that isn't the case. the facility that was hit, you know, these companies, this is where they operate, they operate in high risk, high threat areas, and they have a very high risk appetite. they understand the dangers that are involved. but the problem is...
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the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what
the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then...
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the second is that the german economy remained competitive last year despite a weaker environment, and that has given exports a boost. >> exports are the backbone of the german economy. they continued to grow last year, albeit at a slower rate. companies are proceeding with caution. they are cutting investment amid uncertainty about what the new year will hold, especially for the eurozone. in 2011, the german economy grew by 3%. that figure dropped to 0.7% last year. the economy even contracted in the final quarter. the government is poised to cut its own forecast for 2013 to just 0.5%. that is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the jobs market. the unemployment rate is expected to see just a small rise this year. >> for, let's cross over to a frankfurt -- to frankfurt. not necessarily the greatest news for those without a job, but there was good news for the german tax man. >> absolutely. the government has been able to reach its budget plans earlier than expected. the new debt load has been lower than expected, and this has been very good news, although the government also lower
the second is that the german economy remained competitive last year despite a weaker environment, and that has given exports a boost. >> exports are the backbone of the german economy. they continued to grow last year, albeit at a slower rate. companies are proceeding with caution. they are cutting investment amid uncertainty about what the new year will hold, especially for the eurozone. in 2011, the german economy grew by 3%. that figure dropped to 0.7% last year. the economy even...
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the second is that the german economy remained competitive last year despite a weaker environment, and that has given exports a boost. >> exports are the backbone of the german economy. they continued to grow last year, albeit at a slower rate. companies are proceeding with caution. they are cutting investment amid uncertainty about what the new year will hold, especially for the eurozone. in 2011, the german economy grew by 3%. that figure dropped to 0.7% last year. the economy even contracted in the final quarter. the government is poised to cut its own forecast for 2013 to just 0.5%. that is unlikely to have an immediate impact on the jobs market. the unemployment rate is expected to see just a small rise this year. >> for, let's cross over to a frankfurt -- to frankfurt. not necessarily the greatest news for those without a job, but there was good news for the german tax man. >> absolutely. the government has been able to reach its budget plans earlier than expected. the new debt load has been lower than expected, and this has been very good news, although the government also lower
the second is that the german economy remained competitive last year despite a weaker environment, and that has given exports a boost. >> exports are the backbone of the german economy. they continued to grow last year, albeit at a slower rate. companies are proceeding with caution. they are cutting investment amid uncertainty about what the new year will hold, especially for the eurozone. in 2011, the german economy grew by 3%. that figure dropped to 0.7% last year. the economy even...
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and it's almost certainly due to some change in the marine environment. we can make predictions about how the animals are going to respond as the climate changes into the future. >> reporter: australian officials and experts say their effort isn't just academic but realistic and practical too. >> certainly climate change is a really big concern to us. concerned about antarctica because of the impact it has and the practical consequences. it affects the ocean around it and therefore the fisheries upon which we rely. >> reporter: some of these studies have been going on for a few years. some only a month. those involved hope the project will provide important information to help in the fight against global climate change. take nakajima, nhk world, hobart, tasmania. >>> time now to get a check on the weather. people on the streets in tokyo are watching their step as they get around today. meteorologist sayaka morery explains. >> hi there. on monday we saw very heavy snow in tokyo. because we are not used to heavy snow, people are having trouble walking on ic
and it's almost certainly due to some change in the marine environment. we can make predictions about how the animals are going to respond as the climate changes into the future. >> reporter: australian officials and experts say their effort isn't just academic but realistic and practical too. >> certainly climate change is a really big concern to us. concerned about antarctica because of the impact it has and the practical consequences. it affects the ocean around it and therefore...
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they take advantage of the environment put out there. >> not some brilliant business acumen going into this. that being said, jamie dimon run as very profitable bank. if you think about it, put london whale in perspective. i have never been a very big story. people screwing up and going nuts afterwards. lori: we're informed nonetheless. thank you. melissa: charlie, thanks so much. the dawn of the ice age, what will the intercontinental exchange deal for euro nyse be for trading? lori: federal reserve chairman ben bernanke's term set to expire next year. speculation is mounting who could take over. lou dobbs narrows the field for us next. ♪ . [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work. and his new boss told him twongs -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll wk his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and me from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, nd he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his la, which isn't rock
they take advantage of the environment put out there. >> not some brilliant business acumen going into this. that being said, jamie dimon run as very profitable bank. if you think about it, put london whale in perspective. i have never been a very big story. people screwing up and going nuts afterwards. lori: we're informed nonetheless. thank you. melissa: charlie, thanks so much. the dawn of the ice age, what will the intercontinental exchange deal for euro nyse be for trading? lori:...
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but for this grandmother, the environment is no longer a priority. >> it is a shame, people worked hard to grow those trees, and now we're cutting them down, but how else can we stay warm? the water is freezing cold. how can we cope or wash or make bread? >> these families have worked hard to stay alive, digging a trench for the children to jump into the ring air and artillery attacks. behind the home, something much more substantial dug into the ground. it took these people 30 days to cut into this rock to build this homemade bunker. it is cold and dark, but it is where they run to when the shelling starts. for families can spend the night here, if they're too scared to come out until the bombardment is over. >> we dug the cave to protect our children from the shelling. we are old. we are not afraid to die. we no longer care about ourselves, but we are worried that the children could be terrify the rest of their lives. >> this person kept a diary since the start of the war. she writes it for herself and the other children, to help them caulker their fears. >> all the stories help me. i
but for this grandmother, the environment is no longer a priority. >> it is a shame, people worked hard to grow those trees, and now we're cutting them down, but how else can we stay warm? the water is freezing cold. how can we cope or wash or make bread? >> these families have worked hard to stay alive, digging a trench for the children to jump into the ring air and artillery attacks. behind the home, something much more substantial dug into the ground. it took these people 30 days...
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but we're seeing much more corporation under the current environment. the government and central bank discussing a joint policy statement which will be issued by both sides after the latest meeting. the economic revitalization minister said they are closer to reaching an agreement. they met with the bank of japan governor for half an hour on friday morning, exchanged views on the joint statement. this will stipulate measures aimed at pulling the country out of deflation. based on the interaction so far the bank and central government is likely to come up with a clear declaration they will set an inflation target at 2%. the two sides are to make agreement for the government to work on economic growth. >> translator: we talked about how we can work together but i'll not comment any further. >> translator: we discussed how the government and the central bank can further boost cooperation. the meeting was productive. >> amari was positive on development. he hinted the joint policy statement may it please lead to bolder monetary easing steps. let's get a che
but we're seeing much more corporation under the current environment. the government and central bank discussing a joint policy statement which will be issued by both sides after the latest meeting. the economic revitalization minister said they are closer to reaching an agreement. they met with the bank of japan governor for half an hour on friday morning, exchanged views on the joint statement. this will stipulate measures aimed at pulling the country out of deflation. based on the...
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the bank of japan, if you monetize the debt in a low inflationary environment, is this a free lunch? >> right. >> in the uk, it has turned out to be a free lunch. would it in japan? possibly, yes, and, therefore, i wonder if these issues ever will be addressed. >> and what's so interesting, you're seeing these bizarre rates happening in a monetary policy. we feel like we're in a whole new regime where people feel like it doesn't matter at all. wondering if it matters at all how much you spend and borrow in these situations. how does it change, if at all your strategy from here? >> it makes having a long-term strategy really, really tough. and you can see that in the markets right now. what people see by more investment, it gets pushed into treasuries, into eks, and we see markets trading at very elevated levels. relative to fundamentals appears to become the norm. and i would argue that we're now in a world where it's very difficult to recruit any decent returns. as a result, as investors, we're going to have to live with that. >> and a lot of people are just closing up shop and sayi
the bank of japan, if you monetize the debt in a low inflationary environment, is this a free lunch? >> right. >> in the uk, it has turned out to be a free lunch. would it in japan? possibly, yes, and, therefore, i wonder if these issues ever will be addressed. >> and what's so interesting, you're seeing these bizarre rates happening in a monetary policy. we feel like we're in a whole new regime where people feel like it doesn't matter at all. wondering if it matters at all...
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the council for science and the environment discusses disasters in the environment. the discussion will focus on the lessons of hurricane katrina, the ongoing drought, and the earthquake in japan. that is on c-span3 at 8:30 on with -- , today's a few moments headlines and phone calls, live on washington journal. the us house of representatives will be in session at two o'clock eastern. a disaster aid spending bill for hurricane sandy. in 45 minutes, we will be joined by scott rigell of virginia. we will talk about his recent we will talk about his recent letter to
the council for science and the environment discusses disasters in the environment. the discussion will focus on the lessons of hurricane katrina, the ongoing drought, and the earthquake in japan. that is on c-span3 at 8:30 on with -- , today's a few moments headlines and phone calls, live on washington journal. the us house of representatives will be in session at two o'clock eastern. a disaster aid spending bill for hurricane sandy. in 45 minutes, we will be joined by scott rigell of...
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but we had to adjust to the environment we're in right now. that's what we're dealing with. >> where would you say the net flow is now between morgan stanley brokers and merrill brokers right now? who's winning? are you -- you added more? have they -- and are you -- are you in an aggressive mode right now in terms of offering them increased compensation to come to morgan stanley, or -- >> i'm going to give you an answer which may be a little counterintuitive. the person who's winning might be the one who's actually losing on net flow. in other words, there are some very aggressive recruiting packages out there. anybody can go out and spend money -- >> in the past -- >> spend money and buy talent. do you want us just buying talent? >> i don't know. where are you now in terms of totals? >> we're over 16,500. i forget exactly. i think merrill -- you know, honestly, i don't even know. >> ubs is a big player. >> well, ubs is very different. they're a global private bank doesn't have brokers, has private bankers. the domestic business which is the o
but we had to adjust to the environment we're in right now. that's what we're dealing with. >> where would you say the net flow is now between morgan stanley brokers and merrill brokers right now? who's winning? are you -- you added more? have they -- and are you -- are you in an aggressive mode right now in terms of offering them increased compensation to come to morgan stanley, or -- >> i'm going to give you an answer which may be a little counterintuitive. the person who's...
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abe noted the strategic environment had changed a lot in the six years since he was last in office. he called china's increased maritime activities a shared concern. he said all nations involved must abide by international law. prime minister says he understands japan's stance and gives his country's backing. vietnam and some of his neighbors have territorial disputes with china over islands in the south china sea. after the meeting, the two leaders held a joint news conference them said they will work together on various challenges facing southeast asia. >> translator: we have agreed the two countries will jointly tackle issues that concern east asia. we'll also cooperate in the fields of political peace and stability. >> prime minister zhun said they agreed that all conflicts and issues shall be resolved through peace and international law. >>> operate however japan's two main airlines have ground their fleets of 787 dream liners. the decision follows the latest incident with boeing's troubled plane. all nippon airway 787 made an emergency landing on wednesday in wrern western jap
abe noted the strategic environment had changed a lot in the six years since he was last in office. he called china's increased maritime activities a shared concern. he said all nations involved must abide by international law. prime minister says he understands japan's stance and gives his country's backing. vietnam and some of his neighbors have territorial disputes with china over islands in the south china sea. after the meeting, the two leaders held a joint news conference them said they...
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um, and the other one is the political environment. where we actually -- oh, boy, sorry. >> with can't blame the audience. [laughter] >> it's really going to be hard to ignore it, but we're going to do it. so the other piece of it is the political environment where we have the ability to fix the situation. we basically know what the fix is. we know that you need a comprehensive debt deal that's big enough to stabilize the debt, and i think we all remember the period when we were actually trying to balance the budget. we're not there. we're not going to be there anytime soon. but you certainly want to make sure the debt's not growing faster than the economy and that it's actually put on a downward path, and we know that the problem is big that to accomplish that you have to look at every part of the budget. you have to look at defense spending, you have to clearly -- and focus on -- look at health care costs which are growing faster than the economy. we have to fix our social security system which makes promises that are bigger than wha
um, and the other one is the political environment. where we actually -- oh, boy, sorry. >> with can't blame the audience. [laughter] >> it's really going to be hard to ignore it, but we're going to do it. so the other piece of it is the political environment where we have the ability to fix the situation. we basically know what the fix is. we know that you need a comprehensive debt deal that's big enough to stabilize the debt, and i think we all remember the period when we were...
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as we reinvest, the overall low rate of environment is not unusual. we do have offsets in our loan portfolio as our national strategic non-portfolio runs down or winds off. we have an opportunity to invest in higher yield customer oriented relationships, and so we think we've got some stabilizing forces. it's hard to tell exactly how the market reacted in one given day to our net interest margin. but we feel like we've had pretty good management of it and i'm optimistic we'll maintain some stability in a tough environment in 2013. >> your fee income did come in lower than expected, though, both capital markets and mortgage banking. is that just a one-time only? are we going to see a better series of numbers in 2013? >> well, yeah, capital markets is probably the big driver of any up or down movement in our fee income. the fourth quarter was an unusual quarter in a couple of ways. one, you had the impact of hurricane sandy where the markets were closed for a couple of days. we saw average daily revenue in the business drop from about 1.2 to about $1.1
as we reinvest, the overall low rate of environment is not unusual. we do have offsets in our loan portfolio as our national strategic non-portfolio runs down or winds off. we have an opportunity to invest in higher yield customer oriented relationships, and so we think we've got some stabilizing forces. it's hard to tell exactly how the market reacted in one given day to our net interest margin. but we feel like we've had pretty good management of it and i'm optimistic we'll maintain some...
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important stakeholders, followed probably by investors, then suppliers, larger communities and the environment. they're all important. they all need to be taken into consideration. but i think the real secret sauce to a successful conscious business is prioritizing customers and employees. >> tom: one thing you have to deal with when talking about prioritizing customers is retail prices. food prices specifically. you deal with these every day directly. food inflation is moderated certainly from the big year-over-year increases we saw in 2011. it's been volatile, though. so how do you deal with that for your stakeholders, for your customers? >> there's not-- honestly, there's not that much you can do about it because if your raw cost goes up, you sort of have to pass those on. and i mean, i always think people misunderstand inflation because it's really just the currency depreciating and working its way out through all the different sections. if the federal government increases the money supply faster than productivity you're going to see inflation. and that's what we're seeing in food right no
important stakeholders, followed probably by investors, then suppliers, larger communities and the environment. they're all important. they all need to be taken into consideration. but i think the real secret sauce to a successful conscious business is prioritizing customers and employees. >> tom: one thing you have to deal with when talking about prioritizing customers is retail prices. food prices specifically. you deal with these every day directly. food inflation is moderated...
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he says the alliance is the foundation of japanese security in an increasingly difficult environment. japanese and american diplomats have been struggling to agree on how to relocate a u.s. military base in okinawa. they've run into strong opposition from residents. on top of that, the americans have been pressuring the japanese to start talks on a free trade agreement. farmers and lobby groups are urging abe not to join the transpacific partnership. many wonder how abe will balance these pressures as he tries to achieve these goals. nhk world. >>> four days of anti-government protests in pakistan have come to an end. patchari raksawong joins us from bangkok with an update on the situation. >> good evening, gene. the protests may be over but the problems remain in pakistan. supporters of influential cleric qadri were demanding the government resign for rampant corruption. it called for the end of demonstrations on thursday. with elections approaching, pakistan faces more difficult weeks ahead. we have this report from islamabad. >> reporter: qadri declared victory in front of supporte
he says the alliance is the foundation of japanese security in an increasingly difficult environment. japanese and american diplomats have been struggling to agree on how to relocate a u.s. military base in okinawa. they've run into strong opposition from residents. on top of that, the americans have been pressuring the japanese to start talks on a free trade agreement. farmers and lobby groups are urging abe not to join the transpacific partnership. many wonder how abe will balance these...
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he says the alliance is the foundation of japanese security in an increasingly difficult environment. japanese and american diplomats have been struggling to agree on how to relocate a u.s. military base in okinawa. they've run into strong opposition from residents. on top of that, the americans have been pressuring the japanese to start talks on a free trade agreement. farmers and lobby groups are urging abe not to join the transpacific partnership. many wonder how abe will balance these pressures as he tries to achieve these goals. nhk world. >>> four days of anti-government protests in pakistan have come to an end. patchari raksawong joins us from bangkok with an update on the situation. patchari, good evening. >> good evening, gene. the protests may be over but the problems remain in pakistan. supporters of influential cleric qadri were demanding the government resign for rampant corruption. it called for the end of demonstrations on thursday. with elections approaching, pakistan faces more difficult weeks ahead. we have this report from islamabad. >> reporter: qadri declared vict
he says the alliance is the foundation of japanese security in an increasingly difficult environment. japanese and american diplomats have been struggling to agree on how to relocate a u.s. military base in okinawa. they've run into strong opposition from residents. on top of that, the americans have been pressuring the japanese to start talks on a free trade agreement. farmers and lobby groups are urging abe not to join the transpacific partnership. many wonder how abe will balance these...
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throwing money at their program does not create an academic environment. host: what would have created that environment? guest: a focus on reading, writing, mathematics. host: how much control did you have as a teacher to help those kids? gue caller: absolutely none, there were more administrators. none of them were involved with anyone -- any meaning -- anything meaningful after academic. guest: let me rephrase the caller's statement. one of the items that the panels have looked at is the question of autonomy. when schools are given more freedom to make decisions about their own budget and hiring and firing of teachers, is that correlate with higher achievement? indeed, it does appear to be correlated with that. that is something we need to do more research on and dig into the international date it deeper. the idea that schools should be more autonomous and not overregulated, i think the caller is probably correct on that. guest: when we were discussing poverty, the point was in general, higher levels of parlors -- poverty are correlated with lower levels
throwing money at their program does not create an academic environment. host: what would have created that environment? guest: a focus on reading, writing, mathematics. host: how much control did you have as a teacher to help those kids? gue caller: absolutely none, there were more administrators. none of them were involved with anyone -- any meaning -- anything meaningful after academic. guest: let me rephrase the caller's statement. one of the items that the panels have looked at is the...
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>> in this environment, we're actually asking our clients to think about three things. first we're going to have low interest rates for awhile. so they need to adjust their expected returns. so in a low interest rate environment we're going to have lower returns across all asset classes. second, we're telling our clients that as they think about the lower returns in the context of their portfolios, they also need to recognize that we are going to have volatility from incremental policy on a global basis. whether it's in the u.s., europe, japan or emerging market countries. we are expecting that policy, whether it's monetary policy adjustments, fiscal policy, it will all be incremental. and that will create market pressure because it won't be at a pace that the markets would like to see. so that will introduce volatility. and it's not something our clients should try to trace. they should look over the horizon and invest for the long run. >> looking at the long run, three to five-year term outlook if you look at those expected returns, what's interesting to me is that yo
>> in this environment, we're actually asking our clients to think about three things. first we're going to have low interest rates for awhile. so they need to adjust their expected returns. so in a low interest rate environment we're going to have lower returns across all asset classes. second, we're telling our clients that as they think about the lower returns in the context of their portfolios, they also need to recognize that we are going to have volatility from incremental policy on...
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one is stories from the field, if you will, people's experiences in working in international environments to help promote humanitarian missions. fleet week got involved with a humanitarian mission back in october in the earthquake in van, turkey. there's a heavy kurdish in san francisco and the ... better recover from their event and how to better prepare in the future from the katz traufk event that had taken place would not occur. we got a phone call at the fleet week association to ask if we could help bring together some resources and leet a fact-finding mission and we did that. one of our panelists is up here, second from your left, rob dudgeon, he's with the department of emergency management and he's the director of emergency services. rob's organization has been instrumental in creating the program that we have from back in 2010 all the way through to today and i know in the future we're already talking about putting together a hot wash of everything we've learned through 2012's fleet week. so rob is going to talk about the van, turkey mission. from turkey we have rear admiral gue
one is stories from the field, if you will, people's experiences in working in international environments to help promote humanitarian missions. fleet week got involved with a humanitarian mission back in october in the earthquake in van, turkey. there's a heavy kurdish in san francisco and the ... better recover from their event and how to better prepare in the future from the katz traufk event that had taken place would not occur. we got a phone call at the fleet week association to ask if we...
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this company is adapting to the environment in realtime in order to avoid interference and give you the strongest signal possible. ruckus avoids interference and this makes their wi-fi gateways and access points ideal for dense environments like cities or college campuses and because the product is superior, businesses that use ruckus' hardware need to buy fewer wi-fi access points because it covers more area. the overall wi-fi equipment market is expected to grow from $3.4 billion to $8.4 billion in 2016. compound growth, 20% annually. but ruckus is taking share in that market. i believe they would do much better than the average wi-fi planner. getting two-thirds from the wireless networking business, 4% market share. that could go up. the company has ton of success in the schools. universities love to wire themselves up with wi-fi and ruckus gets a third of its enterprise revenues from hotels. they can make their guests pay through the nose for it, right? a third comes from the service provider wi-fi market where internet providers are providing their own wi-fi to their enterprise cus
this company is adapting to the environment in realtime in order to avoid interference and give you the strongest signal possible. ruckus avoids interference and this makes their wi-fi gateways and access points ideal for dense environments like cities or college campuses and because the product is superior, businesses that use ruckus' hardware need to buy fewer wi-fi access points because it covers more area. the overall wi-fi equipment market is expected to grow from $3.4 billion to $8.4...
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so the only path to america winning economically is that we create a regulatory environment, a tax environment and competitive regime in this country that allows our businesses and workers to win in the global competitive game at the moment. we have extraordinary accents in this country. we have a highly educated and motivated workforce that in many respects outperforms, from a product to the point of view, workers in virtually every other country. we have the most efficient capital markets in the world. industry we have great natural resources as well. there's a lot to be bullish about in the country in terms of our economic opportunities. but this fiscal deficit our fiscal policy is an enormous cloud or retardant on us reaching that potential. you know, i work in the investment banking industry, i used to be in the money management industry. there's a phrase that sometimes get applied to companies and you would say about the company, good company but bad capital structure, and maybe bad management as well. that was used to describe a company that had, you know, great products, highly motivat
so the only path to america winning economically is that we create a regulatory environment, a tax environment and competitive regime in this country that allows our businesses and workers to win in the global competitive game at the moment. we have extraordinary accents in this country. we have a highly educated and motivated workforce that in many respects outperforms, from a product to the point of view, workers in virtually every other country. we have the most efficient capital markets in...
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most important stakeholders, followed probably by investors then suppliers, larger communities and the environment. they're all important. they all need to be taken into consideration. but i think the real secret sauce to a successful conscious business is prioritizing customers and employees. >> tom: one thing you have to deal with when talking about prioritizing customers is retail prices. food prices specifically. you deal with these every day directly. food inflation is moderated certainly from the big year-over-year increases we saw in 2011. it's been volatile though. so how do you deal with that for your stakeholders, for your customers? >> there's not-- honestly, there's not that much you can do about it because if your raw cost goes up, you sort of have to pass those on. and i mean i always think people misunderstand inflation because it's really just the currency depreciating and working its way out through all the different sections. if the federal government increases the money supply faster than productivity you're going to see inflation. and that's what we're seeing in food right now
most important stakeholders, followed probably by investors then suppliers, larger communities and the environment. they're all important. they all need to be taken into consideration. but i think the real secret sauce to a successful conscious business is prioritizing customers and employees. >> tom: one thing you have to deal with when talking about prioritizing customers is retail prices. food prices specifically. you deal with these every day directly. food inflation is moderated...
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provide $50 million to help 8000 schools to train teachers and staff to create safer environments. when it comes to mental health, more money, provided $55 million for new initiative to make sure students get mental treatment. $25 million for state base strategies supporting individuals age 16-25 with mental health or substance abuse issues. another $25 million to offer students mental-health services for trauma or anxiety. $50 million to train 5000 additional mental health professionals serving children and young adults. those are the items the washington post as identified that congressional action would be necessary. as we go throughout the morning, a lot of editorials from this morning's papers. we were reports of those as well. we take your calls and get your thoughts, jeff is a gun owner from missouri. thank you for holding. go ahead. caller: the sun is just coming up here, and it has been up for you a little bit. i wanted to address the. a lot of people -- the point a lot of people forget. the second amendment was put into place to protect people from being observed by a cor
provide $50 million to help 8000 schools to train teachers and staff to create safer environments. when it comes to mental health, more money, provided $55 million for new initiative to make sure students get mental treatment. $25 million for state base strategies supporting individuals age 16-25 with mental health or substance abuse issues. another $25 million to offer students mental-health services for trauma or anxiety. $50 million to train 5000 additional mental health professionals...
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still going on that i think put it our national americans in international different international environment in great danger because you know this is a very on and. it is absolutely it's the whole international law and in addition to that you don't want on a mo is still open and things he promised that i think you know how do we we work through this process. we would be in a much better place internationally but i do i just say with one caveat it's not having much much cooperation with the u.s. congress and i think that's hurt him tremendously on anything he's been able to get done although the president does decide international policy from the white house. we're watching some live pictures as we speak in fact of this inauguration taking place in washington certainly a day of celebrations but i think it's fair to say that there's a lot of critics that would say there's not really much to celebrate like you said there are a lot of challenges ahead the killing of osama bin ladin in pakistan was of course a big deal for obama his approval ratings went up some might say it helped him win the el
still going on that i think put it our national americans in international different international environment in great danger because you know this is a very on and. it is absolutely it's the whole international law and in addition to that you don't want on a mo is still open and things he promised that i think you know how do we we work through this process. we would be in a much better place internationally but i do i just say with one caveat it's not having much much cooperation with the...